Burst Pipe in DeWitt
Where OCWA supplies DeWitt, a burst is stopped at the valve inside the foundation wall.
Burst and Frozen Pipes quote in DeWitt
Tell us what the water is doing, whether it has stopped and whose home it is. A person reads every request and matches it to a licensed, insured plumber for the part that cannot wait. We cannot promise how soon a request sent at night is read, so close the main shutoff first.
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DeWitt: an empty house next door in a freeze
About 6.5 percent of DeWitt homes stand vacant. In a hard freeze, water running from a neighbor's empty house is worth reporting to the owner or OCWA, because nobody is inside to close the valve.
The OCWA rules behind a DeWitt burst

ACS 2020 to 2024 estimates give the Town of DeWitt a median year built of 1963 across 10,996 housing units, with 79.3 percent of occupied units heating with utility gas, among the highest in this metro, 26.4 percent renter occupied, and 6.5 percent of units vacant.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-24
Section 4.4 of the OCWA Customer Rules states that the curb stop valve may not be used by the customer to turn the water on or off and is to be operated exclusively by an Authority employee. Section 4.5 requires the customer to install two shutoff valves, the first inside the building wall no further than 12 inches from that wall, and the second adjacent to the meter.
Source: Onondaga County Water Authority, accessed 2026-09-24
What burst and frozen pipes involves in DeWitt


First steps at a DeWitt burst
A pipe has split in a DeWitt house. Close the valve inside the foundation wall or the one beside the meter; the valve at the road belongs to OCWA staff. With the water off, the plumber's job tonight is a temporary repair and a record, and the permanent repair follows the insurer's look.

DeWitt pipe burst and the water off?
Send what failed and we connect you with a licensed, insured plumber.
DeWitt burst pipe question
The inside valve will not close. Who shuts the water off?
OCWA, at the road, on request. Its rules do not let a customer or a plumber use that valve.
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